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Divine Worship and Human Healing: Liturgical Theology at the Margins of Life and DeathWould many believers consider a wake or funeral an act of worship? What does it mean to say that in anointing the sick or administering Viaticum to the dying humans are healed? Such questions plumb the biblical and traditional depths of the paschal mystery....
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Mystery of EasterWhat does the paschal mystery mean in the context of the rite - past and present - and in Christian life and death?Students of the liturgy and preachers will find in these pages a thoughtful examination of the mystery of Easter. Father Cantalamessa, the...
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Rekindling the Christic Imagination: Theological Meditations for the New EvangelizationThe Second Vatican Council marked the beginning of the New Evangelization. It sought to communicate the Gospel's perennial newness to the contemporary world in a spirit of joy and hope. Yet despite the exhortations of Paul VI and John Paul II, a number of...
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Hindu Primary Sources: A Sectarian ReaderBringing together texts from a variety of sectarian traditions, this reader provides the broadest selection of primary source Hindu literature available to date. The volume is divided into two major parts. The first section presents selections that explore major themes in classical Sanskrit traditions,...
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History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle AgesAuthor: Etienne GilsonPublisher: Catholic University of America PressPublished: 01/11/2019Pages: 850Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.40lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.90dISBN: 9780813231952About the AuthorEtienne Gilson was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy.
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Hymns on FaithAuthor: St Ephrem the SyrianPublisher: Catholic University of America PressPublished: 04/01/2015Pages: 448Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.00dISBN: 9780813230122
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The Vision of the Soul: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Western TraditionOurs is an age full of desires but impoverished in its understanding of where those desires lead--an age that claims mastery over the world but also claims to find the world as a whole absurd or unintelligible. In The Vision of the Soul, James...
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On Liturgical AsceticismDrawing on the Eastern Orthodox tradition of asceticism and integrating it with recent Western thought on liturgy, David W. Fagerberg examines the interaction between the two and presents a powerful argument that asceticism is necessary for understanding liturgy as the foundation of theology. Asceticism...
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Christ and Spirituality in St. Thomas AquinasSt. Thomas Aquinas's holiness did not flower alongside his endeavor as a theologian or in isolation from it. Rather, it was a fruit of his practice of theology and the asceticism proper to magnanimous souls who dare to examine the mystery of God. Theological...
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Christ Our Hope an Introduction to Eschatology**Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine**Christ Our Hope is a masterful reflection on Christian eschatology, in a textbook of twelve accessible chapters. Paul O'Callaghan considers the return of Christ in glory at the end of time, final resurrection, the renewal of...
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The First Apology, the Second Apology, Dialogue with Trypho, Exhortation to the Greeks, Discourse to the Greeks, the Monarchy of the Rule of GodSt. Justin Martyr is known as the oustanding apologist of the second century. While the Apostolic Fathers like St. Clement of Rome, St. Ignatius of Antioch, and St. Polycarp had addressed members within the Christian fold, St. Justin is considered to be the first...
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Saint Peter Chrysologus Selected Sermons and Saint Valerian HomiliesAuthor: St Peter ChrysologusPublisher: Catholic University of America PressPublished: 03/03/2004Pages: 454Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80dISBN: 9780813213897
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The Immortality of the Soul; The Magnitude of the Soul; On Music; The Advantage of Believing; On Faith in Things UnseenThe five works of Augustine translated in this volume (De immortalitate animae, De quantitate animae, De musica, De utilitate credendi, and De fide rerum quae non videntur) are focused on the nature of the soul, its ability to find knowledge, and its relationships with...
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Sharing in Christ's Virtues: For the Renewal of Moral Theology in Light of Veritatis SplendorThe encyclical Veritatis splendor (The Splendor of Truth) represents the first document of the magisterium devoted to the foundations of the Catholic moral life. Though it was intended to confront a genuine crisis of moral disintegration and to offer positive directions for carrying out...
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The Genius of JudaismFrom world-renowned public intellectual Bernard-Henri L vy comes an incisive and provocative look at the heart of Judaism. "A smart, revealing, and essential book for our times."--The Washington Post For more than four decades, Bernard-Henri L vy has been a singular figure on the...
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Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-ChristianityThe historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two separate religions. Following this model, there would have been one religion known as Judaism before the birth of Christ, which then took on...
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Raids on the UnspeakableHere this concern finds expression in poetic irony and in meditations intentionally dour. In these brief, challenging pieces, Father Merton does not offer consolation or easy remedies. He looks candidly and without illusions at the world of his time. Though he sees dark horizons,...
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Why Bother Praying?Written by the best selling author of Where the Hell Is God?, this accessible volume is for everyone who wonders how to pray, everyone who wonders what happens when you pray, and everyone who wonders if God hears our prayers. In an engaging and...
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Teilhard de Chardin--Seven Stages of Suffering: A Spiritual Path for TransformationDespite the fact that tremendous strides have been made to reduce human suffering and efforts to alleviate human anguish continue onward, we are still living in an unfinished, evolving world filled with pain, frustration, loss, grief, and adversity. Based on the spirituality of Teilhard...
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The Gospel of the FamilyIn this thought-provoking address given to the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Walter Kasper, whom Pope Francis has called "a superb theologian, discusses everything that is beautiful about the family without avoiding its problems. According to Cardinal Kasper, the family functions as a small "domestic...
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